Taher Shemaly Poems

Patience galore,
patience is all I ask for, then,
Enough with words,
if any would come now, or then.
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Was it, or was it not,
a rainy day, when I met you?
Everything was so fast, so quick,
so much I didn't notice, but you.
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What is essence
where is presence
just a flick of time
and memories are gone.
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Let me take a gaze,
sweetly, on the face,
where my universe revolve.
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The sun, and the moon,
the day and the night,
I do get it all, but I,
I just don't understand.
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Far, as far away as my own destiny
take me O winds of memories of sorrows
Far afar, away from the near and the far
where my dreams are but legends of morrows
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Within your banks shall I be there
to wash off the tiresome mind of mine
Clear it, as though the sky never rained
O Shannon, river in the heart so divine
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Thus, In those sparkling eyes it was
where I met the smile so adamantly
By the hug and by the soft braid
here goes my heart with them soothly
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Come, O heir of the pride in fame
upon the knee sit and let me go
Over thy Celtic looks and name
over thy ornate smile and bandeu
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Upon the pillow rested the head
and the eyes closed and I dreamt
The sun rays tickled down this face
with a soft touch more like a lace
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